The British Columbia Digital Library

Digital Library Construction Tools: How-To Manuals

See also How-To Courses; Standards.

• Best Practice Guidelines for Digital Collections at the UM Libraries. Edited by Susan Schreibman. College Park, MD: Office of Digital Collections and Research, University of Maryland, 2007. Second ed. draft. "Authored by Yvonne Carignan, Janet Evander, Gretchen Gueguen, Ann Hanlon, Kate Murray, Jennifer Roper, Tony Ross, Susan Schreibman". Format: Adobe Acrobat PDF. Date accessed: 2008-02-06. Date added: 2008-02-06.
• Creating and Documenting Electronic Texts: A Guide to Good Practice. Alan Morrison, Michael Popham, Karen Wikander. AHDS Guides to Good Practice. London, UK: Arts and Humanities Data Service. Highly recommended as a succinct handbook to planning, implementing and maintaining a library of digitized texts. Includes a bibliography and glossary. Date added: 2001-12-15.
• Creating and Managing Digital Collections. Ottawa, ON: Canadian Heritage Information Network. This comprehensive Web site from CHIN, designed for art galleries, museums and related heritage institutions, includes Capture Your Collection: A Guide for Managers Planning and Implementing Digitization Projects (online and downloadable as an Adobe PDF document) and an online course Capture Your Collections: Planning and Implementing Digitization Projects. Date accessed: 2002-05-07. Date added: 2002-05-08.
• Creating Digital Resources for the Visual Arts: Standards and Good Practice. Catherine Grout et al. AHDS Guides to Good Practice. Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) and Technical Advisory Service for Images (TASI). Date accessed: 2005-10-22. Date added: 2005-10-22.
• Digital Best Practices: Planning a Digital Project. Olympia, WA: Washington State Library. Covers project management, collection management, technology and funding. Date added: 2002-01-29.
• Digital Guidelines Manuals. European Commission: PULMAN Network of Excellence (PULMANweb). Includes links to digitization manuals and example sites from European Union member states' public libraries. Date accessed: 2004-08-28. Date added: 2004-08-28.
• Digital Imaging Primer. Gretchen Gueguen. College Park, MD: Office of Digital Collections and Research, University of Maryland, 2007. "First Edition Released 8 January 2007; Updated 2 August 2007". Format: Adobe Acrobat PDF. Date accessed: 2008-02-06. Date added: 2008-02-06.
• Digital Library Federation (Washington, D.C., USA). This consortium of libraries and related agencies sets standards among its members on hardware/software and description/metadata of digital library content. A series of electronic publications on digital imaging and libraries are available. Date updated: 2005-10-21.
• Digital Library of Georgia Digitization Guide. University of Georgia Libraries, July 2001. Version 1.0. Date accessed: 2003-05-24. Date added: 2003-05-24.
• The Digital Library Toolkit. Peter Noerr. 3rd ed. Sun Microsystems, January 2003. Available as a free Adobe PDF file or a hardcopy can be requested. Date updated: 2005-10-21.
• Digital Library Technology Trends. Sun Microsystems, August 2002. A white paper promoting the use of Sun's products by highlighting digital library collections in which they are already employed. Date accessed: 2002-09-17. Date added: 2002-09-17. Date updated: 2005-10-21.
• Digital Toolbox. Denver, CO: Collaborative Digitization Program. Extensive array of online resources for establishing and maintaining a digital objects collection. Date added: 2001-12-15. Date updated: 2005-11-26.
• Digitisation Guidelines: A Selected List. Rome, Italy: MINERVA Project. Coordinated by the Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali. Summary: "The list is not exhaustive but wants to be selective. The list is limited to guidelines for digitization of paper based on documentary heritage, that is manuscripts, printed books and photographs of libraries, archives and museums, not for digitization of multimedia materials. Toolbox and tutorial have been included too, considering these learning resources as valuable as guidelines. The selected Guidelines have been produced by public and private institutions: some are for guiding the digitization projects, others are related to digitization programs where the Guidelines want to reach the strategy and mission of single institutions: the criteria followed for inclusion was that of general interest for professionals worldwide." Date accessed: 2004-081-28. Date added: 2004-08-28.
• Digitising History: A Guide to Creating Digital Resources from Historical Documents. Sean Townsend, Cressida Chappell and Oscar Struijvé. AHDS Guides to Good Practice. Arts and Humanities Data Service, University of Essex, 1999. Date accessed: 2005-10-22. Date added: 2005-10-22.
• Good Practice Handbook. Edited by the Minerva Working Group 6, Identification of Good Practices and Competence Centres. Version 1.2 (November 2003). Rome, Italy: MINERVA Project. Coordinated by the Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali. Adobe Acrobat PDF file (105 pages; 277,377 bytes). Date accessed: 2004-08-28. Date added: 2004-08-28.
• Good Practices in Digitisation. Rome, Italy: MINERVA Project. Coordinated by the Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali. Summary: "MINERVA is collecting a list of good practices in digitisation, according to the ten categories selected in the Good Practice Handbook, edited by the MINERVA Working group 6 - Identification of good practices and competence centres." Date accessed: 2004-08-28.
• Guidelines for Digitization. Edited by Katherine M. Wisser. 2005 ed. Raleigh, NC: North Carolina ECHO, 2003-. Date accessed: 2003-05-24. Date added: 2003-05-24. Date updated: 2005-10-21.
• Guidelines for Digitization. Hattiesburg, MS: Special Collections Digital Program, University of Southern Mississippi Libraries. Developed for the Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive. Date accessed: 2004-01-12. Date added: 2004-01-12.
• Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access. Edited by Maxine K. Sitts, Northeast Document Conservation Center.
• How to Build a Digital Library. Ian H. Witten and David Bainbridge. Morgan Kaufmann Series in Multimedia Information and Systems. ISBN 1-55860-790-0. Partial access to this book via the Greenstone software developed at the University of Waikato for its New Zealand Digital Library project. Date added: 2002-09-08.
• How To Put Books On-Line: A Guide for Beginners. The On-Line Books Page.
• Infopeople Project. Sacramento, CA: California State Library. A continuing education and clearinghouse for resources on Internet searching and information access, search for the word "digitization" or "digital" to find all available resources on these topics. Workshop documents digitization are often available for viewing as Microsoft Word or Adobe Acrobat PDF files. Date accessed: 2002-10-21. Date added: 2002-10-21. Date updated: 2005-10-22.
• Introduction to Imaging: Issues in Constructing an Image Database. Howard Besser and Jennifer Trant. Malibu, CA: Getty Information Institute, 1995. Electronic version in HTML of a print publication. Date added: 2001-12-27.
• Metadata Implementation Group. Eugene: University of Oregon Libraries. Some of its members served on the Digital Library Initiative; site contains best practices manuals for the libraries' digital content projects, along with links to external best practices manuals, guidelines, and digital libraries background information. Date accessed: 2003-08-04. Date added: 2003-08-04.
• Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging Tutorial. Research Department, Cornell University Library, 2000-2003. The tutorial is available in English, French and Spanish. Contents include the digitization of text as well as images. Date created: 2000-01-01. Date accessed: 2002-12-22. Date added: 2002-12-12. Date updated: 2005-10-22.
• Old Dominion University Digital Library Research Group. This site contains links to tutorials and courses on digital libraries, along with software developed by this group. Date accessed: 2003-09-02. Date added: 2003-09-02.
• Preservation Management of Digital Materials: A Handbook by Maggie Jones and Neil Beagrie. Digital Preservation Coalition. Date accessed: 2002-09-23. Date added: 2002-09-23.
• The State of Digital Preservation: An International Perspective. Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, July 2002. Pub107. ISBN 1-887334-92-0. Proceedings of a conference held April 24-25, 2002, Washington, DC. Available in HTML format or as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file. Date accessed: 2002-09-18. Date added: 2002-09-18.
• See also TASI: Technical Advisory Service for Images (UK).

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